DEAR DAVE, is a tri-annual publication of photography and writing, celebrating a community of visual thinking with affection and mirth, publishing idiosyncratic and original work that is deserving of further recognition. DEAR DAVE, is interested in the most unpredictable work of all genres and sensibilities, and from the familiar to the unknown.

Since 2007, DEAR DAVE has published prose by Hilton Als, Lyle Rexer, Christopher Bollen, Lynne Tillman, Francine Prose, Glenn O’Brien, Brian Dillon, David Campany, Joan Juliet Buck, Travis Diehl, Linda Yablonsky, Philip Gefter, Paul Moakley, Tim Maul, Alix Browne, Liz Goldwyn, Mark Alice Durant, Richard Woodward, Susan Bright, Gregory Eddi Jones, Derek Blasberg, Max Blagg, Roxana Marcoci and David Levi Strauss, among many others.

Photographic portfolios have included work by Charlie Engmann, Erik Madigan Heck, Josef Astor, Asger Carlson, Roe Ethridge, Bobby Doherty, Mark Peterson, Barbara Ess, Eva Stenram, Ina Jang, Valerie Belin, Marco Breuer, Namsa Leuba, Joshua Citarella, Jessica Craig-Martin, Elinor Carucci, Helen Levitt, Oliver Wasow, David Brandon Geeting, An My-Le, Marilyn Minter, Brian Finke, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, and Neil Krug.

The DEAR DAVE, Fellowship began in 2023, to publish portfolios of emerging artists and juried by group from diverse photography communities: Alessia Glaviano, David Campany, Shana Lopes, Rebecca Morse, Narda van ‘T Veer, RaMell Ross, Nick Vogelson, Chantal Webber, and Azu Nwagboku. The six fellowship recipients have been Mackenzie Calle, Xavier Scott Marshall, Harlan Bozeman, Guilia Parlato, Reid+Factor and Marc Ohrem-Leclef.

DEAR DAVE, Reviews began in February 2025 with six reviews of photography exhibitions around the globe each month, in an effort to sustain the critical discourse.

DEAR DAVE, magazine is now available only by subscription or single issues by post. Back issues from 1 to 26 are sold out. Published three times a year in May, October and February. Forthcoming single issues are $21 and an annual subscription is $60.

The founder and editor of DEAR DAVE, is Stephen Frailey.